Talent Scouting

Talent Scouting

Choosing a Font

Fonts

When choosing fonts for the title of our film we wanted to incorporate the horror aspect. We did this by looking for fonts that where clear with a blockish look to them. For instance the bubble affect used on fonts such as comic sans would not be appropriate for a horror film, as it would confuse the message we were trying to put across.

Delusion- Comic Sans = Too bubbly and childish.

Delusion-English157 BT = Not very clear and too elegant/ flamboyant.

Delusion- Zolano Sans BTN = Looks plain and technology inspired. 

Delusion- Bauhaus 93 = Not appropriate for horror as it is bubbly and friendly.

Delusion- Times New Roman = We liked this font but is looked a bit too old fashioned for when our film was set so we had a look at similar styles with a modern twist.

Delusion- Courier New = We felt this was a good match for our film with an old fashioned undertone it looks bold and clear with out being bubbly and childish. We liked the details on the end adding design and depth to the font.

DELUSION- Courier New = Making the font all in capitals makes the title stand out and make a statement with out having to underline or add any details. It ties in with the urgency of a horror film.

For our opening we used American Typewriter, which is very similar to Courier New. As we edited in the titles on iMovie, the program has default Apple fonts and American Typewriter is almost as if it were Apple's version of Courier New.

Final Storyboard and Altercations

Storyboarding

Our First Storyboard

Our initial story board was too rough and was lacking in detail

The order of the shots wasn't chronological either as we kept on changing our minds on what we wanted

Our Final Storyboard

Thinking Maps of our Initial Idea

Thinking Maps of our Initial Idea

After creating mood boards, we pooled our ideas together to create a rough outline of what we wanted our opening to be like and some specific features and ideas that we wanted to include.

Mood board

Mood board

My mood board largely revolved around the idea of a schizophrenic main character, inspired by the film, The Black Swan.

I also liked the idea of games being a tormenting feature for the main character and the audience. From this I thought of playing on the idea of what is reality and what is a game, making the audience question the sanity of the characters involved.

After doing the title sequence analysis of Se7en, I researched into what were some of the directors influences and found out about the photographer, Joel Peter-Whitkin. His photographs were disturbing as they had parts of the body scattered around in the photos.

Collage of Psychological Horror Iconography

Collage of Psychological Horror Iconography

Audience Expectations

Audience Expectations

To gather information for audience expectations we created a survey and sent it out to years 7-13 in the school. Our aim was to see what people expected from the horror genre, and their likes and dislikes of it.

We chose 10 questions to ask and then put it on Survey Monkey:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/MX7F3VC

1. How old are you?

2. Do you like to watch horror films?

3. How often do you watch horror films? 

4. What interests you about the horror genre? 

5. What type of horror film do you like? 

6. What is your favourite horror film? 

7. What do you like about this particular film? 

8. What age rating do you think a typical horror film would be suited to?

9. What do you expect to be featured in a horror film? 

10. What do you dislike about horror films? 

The results from this survey and feedback from the showing of our opening to other media students are included on a later post titled, 'Test Audience Feedback'.